Quarterback
MVP: Drew Brees (Saints)
The shootout between the Falcons and Saints was a gift for fantasy owners. Brees ended up handing out the most blessings of anyone involved in this game with a ridiculous 403 YD (396 passing, 7 rushing), 5 TD (3 passing, 2 rushing) performance that helped the Saints pull out an OT victory on the road. The future HOF'er will look to continue his early-season dominance against the Giants burnable D on Sunday afternoon.
Honorable Mentions: Matt Ryan (Falcons), Cam Newton (Panthers), Ryan Fitzpatrick (Buccaneers)
LVP: Tom Brady (Patriots)
The annual unforeseen epic dud from Brady occurred on Sunday night in Detroit. Brady was frequently out-of-sync with his receivers and routinely missing reads in an uncharacteristically sloppy performance (133 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT) against a Lions team that hadn't played well at all in the first 2 games of the season. Despite this stinker and pretty terrible play of his receivers thus far, Brady should be a strong QB1 play against the Dolphins in Week 4.
Dishonorable Mentions: Kirk Cousins (Vikings), Carson Wentz (Eagles), Blake Bortles (Jaguars)
Running Back
MVP: Adrian Peterson (Redskins)
Father Time got kicked square in the balls yet again as 33-year old relic Adrian Peterson turned back the clock with an impressive 19 CAR/120 YD/2 TD performance against his old friends in Green Bay. I don't have a ton of faith in Peterson's ability to be consistently productive at his age, but he'll definitely remain on the RB2 radar for the foreseeable future.
Honorable Mentions: Carlos Hyde (Browns), Todd Gurley (Rams), Christian McCaffery (Panthers)
LVP: Kenyan Drake (Dolphins)
Despite a juicy matchup with a Raiders defense that had gotten eviscerated on the ground over the past 2 weeks, the 3rd-year back only managed 10 scrimmage YDS (3 rushing, 7 receiving) on 7 touches. Even though Drake is stuck in a timeshare with the ageless Frank Gore on a team that doesn't run the ball a lot, he has enough upside for owners to stick with him for now.
Dishonorable Mentions: Chris Thompson (Redskins), Latavius Murray (Vikings), Rex Burkhead (Patriots)
Wide Receiver
MVP: Calvin Ridley (Falcons)
After dealing with inconsistent play from Momahed Sanu, Taylor Gabriel and Justin Hardy over the past few seasons, the Falcons look like they've finally found a viable running mate for Julio Jones. Ridley built on a promising Week 2 performance against the Panthers with an absolute beatdown of the Saints (7 REC/146 YDS/3 TD) this week. If this early offensive ROY candidate is somehow on your league's waiver wire, pounce on him immediately.
Honorable Mentions: Robert Woods (Rams), Jordy Nelson (Raiders), Mike Williams (Chargers)
LVP: Stefon Diggs (Vikings)
Sunday was a depressing afternoon for the Vikings as they got demolished at home by the lowly Bills. With Adam Thielen and Kyle Rudolph absorbing the bulk of those precious garbage time targets, Diggs ended up being the poor soul whose stats didn't get padded and ended up finishing the afternoon with an underwhelming 4 catches for 17 YDS. The Vikings top outside wideout will look to take advantage of a Rams secondary that will be without top corners Marcus Peters and Aqib Talib on Thursday night.
Dishonorable Mentions: Keenan Allen (Chargers), Amari Cooper (Raiders), Nelson Agholor (Eagles)
Tight End
MVP: Travis Kelce (Chiefs)
While he was held out of the endzone this week, Kelce was once again the leading receiver for the Chiefs with 114 YDS on 8 receptions against the 49ers on Sunday. Kelce will look to extend his TE MVP streak to 3 weeks when goes up against a pretty solid Broncos secondary next Monday night.
Honorable Mentions: Kyle Rudolph (Vikings), George Kittle (49ers), Tyler Eifert (Bengals)
LVP: Will Dissly (Seahawks)
The rookie who scored TD's in each of his first 2 NFL games was invisible this week, reeling in 1 of 3 targets for a measly 4 YDS in a win over the Cowboys. The Seahawks are going to continue to struggle to move the ball through the air as long as Doug Baldwin is sidelined, but I still think Dissly has done enough in the early going to carve out a role in this offense and be a low-end TE1 for fantasy purposes.
Dishonorable Mentions: Jared Cook (Raiders), Eric Ebron (Colts), David Njoku (Browns)
Defense/Special Teams
MVP: Steelers
It was hardly a dominant performance by the Steelers defense last night against the Bucs as they allowed 27 points, but anytime you get 4 takeaways, 3 sacks and a TD, you're going to have a great fantasy outing. As nice as this was for fantasy owners, this performance was a fluke largely made possible by a trademark Ryan Fitzpatrick turnover explosion, so you can safely bench this defense unless the matchup is too good to pass up.
Honorable Mentions: Rams, Bears, Panthers
LVP: Vikings
Josh Allen made this widely respected defense look like a helpless band of clowns on Sunday as the Vikings mustered just 3 sacks and 0 takeaways in a deflating 27-6 home loss to the Bills. Despite their tremendous overall talent and upside, the Vikings D has been erratic as hell in fantasy to start the year and should probably be sat for their Week 4 tilt with the redhot Rams offense.
Dishonorable Mentions: Patriots, Eagles, Cowboys
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